Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes

Alex Ding is Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes and Director of Scholarship at the University of Leeds, UK. Laetitia Monbec is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for English Language and Communication at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsSeries Editors’ ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Alex Ding (University of Leeds)Part I: Mesocosms1. A Socio-Analysis of EAP, Alex Ding (University of Leeds) and Laetitia Monbec(National University of Singapore, Singapore)2. Collegial Connections and Ethical Entanglements: An Exploration of the Ethics of Scholarship in EAP, Bee Bond (University of Leeds, UK)3. EAP Practitioners in the Global South: Participation, Positioning and Agency in the Context of ‘Peripheral’ Scholars and Scholarship, Namala Lakshmi Tilakaratna (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Part II: Microcosms4. EAP Practitioners' Identity: From Social Class to Social Capital, Tanzeela Anbreen (University of Bedfordshire, UK) and Samina Ayub(Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan)5. Trials and Tribulations of EAP Practitioners in Zimbabwe, Tambawoga C. Muchena (Midlands State University, Zimbabwe)6. ‘Be more Pirate’: Harnessing the Power of Liminal Spaces in Creating Academic Literacy Practitioner Identity and Agency, Michelle Joubert and Sherran Clarence (University of the Free State, South Africa)7. Finding Space and Voice: Duoethnographic Exploration of Teacher Agency in EAP, Iwona Winiarska-Pringle (University of Glasgow, UK) and Ania Rolinska (Glasgow School of Art, UK)8. Respected Teachers or a Marginalized, Stigmatized Profession? An Exploration of UK EAP Practitioner Identity, Sarah Taylor (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)9. EAP Teacher Agency in a Digital Age, Blair Matthews (University of St Andrews, UK)10."Changing Lanes": Balancing between Roles of EAP Lecturer and Researcher in a Teaching Institution towards a Research University, Eric Cheung (College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)11. Responding to Students’ Disciplinary Writing in a University-wide Writing Requirement: Negotiating Agency through Positioning, Shari Dureshahwar Lughmani (PolyU, Hong Kong) and Svetlana Chigaeva-Heddad (Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)12. Power and the Canadian EAP Practitioner: Multiethnography as Resistance? James N. Corcoran (York University, Canada), Jennifer J. MacDonald (Dalhousie University, Canada), Jonathan Mendelsohn and Leonardo Gomes Conclusion: Engaging with Identity and Agency in a Collaborative Project, Laetitia Monbec (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

For any EAP practitioner who has felt marginalized or unseen, this rich collection shows that you are not alone and offers a vocabulary and discourse to begin to articulate the value and agency practitioners hold. Giving space to a refreshing array of voices from around the world, Practitioner Agency and Identity in EAP provides glimpses into researchers grappling with what it means to practice EAP, the ethics of our research, and our positions within the university.